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To: Durus

I certainly do. Why don’t you try and enlighten me if you are so sure, Mr. Vocabulary?


4 posted on 03/26/2014 6:21:24 AM PDT by lbryce (Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
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To: lbryce

I think ‘dated’ would have been a better descriptor.

This commercial wouldn’t really be anachronistic unless it were, say, shown on television in the context of a movie set in modern times—or a western set in the 19th century.


20 posted on 03/26/2014 6:46:40 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: lbryce
An anachronism is something that is chronologically out of place, like a picture of George Washington holding an M16, or Bill Clinton sexually assaulting Pocahontas. A Polaroid of the pyramids being built would be an anachronism, but the pyramids themselves are not an anachronism.

An old commercial, and this commercial specifically, is not an anachronism as everything is chronologically in order.

36 posted on 03/26/2014 7:47:39 AM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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